Awesome Educational Resources for Research Software Engineering

A curated awesome list of Educational Ressources for Research Software Engineering (RSE). Inspired by these curated collections.

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Contents

• General
• Software Design and Architecture
• Software Documentation
• Software Development
• Trainings
• Higher Education
• Podcasts

General

• The Turing Way - A handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science.

Software Design and Architecture

• Software Design and Architecture - A guide to software design and architecture.
• Software product quality - The ISO/IEC software quality model.

Software Documentation

• Awesome READMEs - A curated list of awesome READMEs.
• One Sentence per Line Principle - Why you should write only one sentence per line in your documentation.
• Pragmatic Software Architecture Documentation - DLR Talk about concepts of software architecture documentation.
• arc42 templates - A template for software and software architecture documentation.
  • arc42 tips - Additional tips and hints.
  • arc42 FAQ - Frequently asked questions on arc42.
  • DokChess - An arc42 example documentation.
• Architektur Spicker - Short cheatsheets for basic software architecture documentation (German).
• Open Source Guides - Documentation required for Open Source Software.
• Awesome Documentation - A curated list of awesome real-life documentation examples.

Tools

• Awesome Docs - A curated list of awesome documentation tools.
• Awesome Documentation Tools - Curated list of documentation tools in different languages. API, Architecture, Library and X Documentation.
• Pandoc: A universal document converter - Convert between the different formats.

Software Development

• Awesome Software Engineering - A curated list of awesome software engineering resources.
• Awesome Data Engineering - A curated list of data engineering tools for software developers.
• Awesome programming languages - The list of 203 awesome programming languages.

Change Management

• Architectural Decision Records (ADR) - An overview to ADRs.
• Keep a Changelog - Guiding Principles for keeping changelogs.
• Awesome Code Review - A curated list of tools, articles, books, and any other resource related to code review.
• The Art of Readable Code - A book explaining techniques for better readable code.
• pre-commit - A framework to manage pre-commit hooks.

Testing

• Awesome Testing - A curated list of testing software, extensions and resources.
• Awesome-tdd - Curated list of resources: books, videos, articles about using TDD( Test Driven Development ).
• Awesome Test Automation - A curated list of awesome test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and software.

Automation with CI/CD

• ciandcd Awesome - Curated list of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Continuous Integration services - A list of Continuous Integration services.

Project and Code Structure

• Reusable data publications - Good Data Practices for creating reusable Dryad data packages.
• Structure of the Repository - Explains the basics of Python repository structures.
• Python Application Layouts: A Reference - Shows typical Python Applications Layouts.
• Structuring R projects - Explains the basics of R repository structures.
• Cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates) for several languages.

Code Styles

• Awesome (Style) Guidelines - A set of guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods.

Linters and Code Formatters

• Awesome Linters - A community-driven list of awesome linters.
• Awesome Code-Formatters - A curated list of code formatters.

Trainings

• Carpentries trainings - Free course material to teach and learn foundational coding and data science skills.
• Codebender - Course on Managing Research Software Projects.
• Code Refinery - CodeRefinery acts as a hub for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) software practices.
• EMBL-EBI Training - Training in data-driven life sciences.
• ENCCS - Best Practices in HPC Training.
• HIFIS workshops - Free course material to teach or learn research software engineering skills.
• HLRS - Specialized trainings with topics in HPC computing.
• Merely Useful - Book-based course material for Research Software Engineering with Python and R.
• MIT - The missing semester of your CS education.
• NBIS - Tools for reproducible research.
• PRACE - Advanced trainings and workshops with topics in computing.
• Programming Historian - Tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows.
• The Alan Turing Institute - Course Material for several RSE related topics.

Higher Education

Higher education offers at universities and the like with RSE focus:

• Learn Research Software Engineering - Overview of deRSE on study programs (with an focus on Germany).

Podcasts

Podcasts that we can recommend as RSEs for RSEs.

RSE-specific podcasts

• Code for Thought - A podcast on software, engineering, research and anything in between.
• Developer Stories - Originally created for raising awareness for RSE, later on broadened its scope.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.